Case Number 22064: Small Claims Court

Lizard Boy

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All Rise...

Judge David Johnson used to be a lizard boy but then he grew up to be sala-man-der.

The Charge

Half-man/half-reptilian terror!

The Case

From Cinema Epoch, specialists in serving out low-budget B-movies to the
masses, comes this, a low-budget B-movie. The good news: it's worlds better than
most anything you'll find coming out of the Syfy sausage-making plant. The bad
news: there's not much to snark about because Lizard Boy is a
well-executed horror-comedy romp.

The story follows the scientific shenanigans of Dr. Gino Conti (Pete
Punito), a brilliant geneticist recently tasked by the U.S. military to
manufacture a lizard super-animal to be used to attack Chinese aircraft carriers
or something. Gino's research gets diverted when he discovers he and his
fiancée are unable to conceive and he turns his attentions to creating an
unholy reptilian child in his laboratory. Needless to say this little experiment
backfires and daddy dearest struggles to prevent Lizard Boy from murdering
people with his dastardly lizard bite

That synopsis may sound a bit gruesome, but make no mistake: Lizard
Boy is much more of a comedy than a creature feature. There are kills, sure,
and the gore effects are actually nicely put together, with sheared-off limbs
and spurting blood and exposed bones, but it's tongue-in-cheek the whole way
through.

If you squint and really, really focus you can tease out some semi-serious
commentary on the state of designer genetics, but that's a real stretch. The
sweet spot in Lizard Boy is sitting back and enjoying the offbeat humor
and the sight of a human man with a half-decent prosthetic lizard head
practicing his kata in the living room.